Improvement in dressmakers  marking amd cutting gages



MARY BLAUVELT. Dressmakers Marking and Cutting Gages. N0. 141,849"Patented l\ugustl9,`187*3.`

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. MARY BLAUvELr, or irHAcA, New vonk VIIVIP'ROVEIVIEINIT IN DRESSMAKERSlVIARKING ANDCUTTING GAGES.

Specification forming part of vLetters Patent No. HLLSLM), dated August19, 1873 application filed April 28, 1873.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, MARY BLAUVELT, of Ithaca, county of Tompkins andState of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inMarking and Guttin g Gages, of which the following is a specification;

The nature of my invention relates to an iinprovement in marking andcutting gages for cutting and marking out dresses, and work of allkinds; and it consists in the arrangement 'and combination of parts,which will be more fully described hereafter.

Figure 1 isa plan view of my invention. Fig. 2 is a cross-section of thesame.

a represents the gage, made of a strip of metal or other material, ofany desired length,

and having a scale of inches marked Vupon its top. One of its ends isturned upward at right angles and slotted, so that the wheel c, used formarking, can be adjusted vertically, as circumstances may require.Attached to this upturned end is a handle, e, for propelling the wheel,and a chalk-holder, g, for holding the chalk against the teeth of thewheel, so that as it revolves the teeth, by rubbing against the chalk,will be whitened, and thus leave their marks behind on the work as theyare propelled over it. l

When it is desired to cut the work out at once, the marking-wheel isremoved and a cutting one used in its place, which will cut the clothlike a pair of scissors or a knife.

Moving back and forth on the gage is the adjustable slide i', havingattached to it two small rollers or wheels, l, placed upon a plane withthe marking or cutting wheel, and a setscrew, a, for securing it at anydesired point on the gage. Secured to the front of this slide is anadjustable rod or wire, o, to extend the lthis 22d day of April, 1873.

MARY BLAUVELT.

Witnesses:

p I. (l. MGWHORTER,

ABEL BURRITT.

